New Writings of William Hazlitt
New Writings of William Hazlitt
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This two volume set contains 205 writings attributed to the Romantic essayist William Hazlitt but not included in the standard scholarly edition of his works (published 1930-4). It includes essays on the poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge, a defence of Byron and Shelley against charges of immorality, and reviews of some of the greatest actors of the time.
plenty to savour
...lavishly edited...
It is not the least of Wu's achievements that he brings to light the considerable editorial and forensic effort...of the Hazlitt scholars before him... New Writings of William Hazlitt, must be acknowledged as a splendid tribute, to those scholars as to the great essayist himself.
Hazlitt's most devoted recent servant has been Duncan Wu... Wu has done very useful service in gathering this material and his extensive annotations cast erudite light on an entire literary milieu.
Duncan Wu is Professor of English at Georgetown University. He is the author of Wordsworth: An Inner Life (2000), and the editor of Romanticism: An Anthology, a standard text now in its third edition. He is the editor of Selected Writings of William Hazlitt (9 vols., 1998), William Hazlitt, The Plain Speaker: Key Essays (1998), and (with Tom Paulin and Uttara Natarajan) Metaphysical Hazlitt: Bicentenary Essays (2005).
plenty to savour
...lavishly edited...
It is not the least of Wu's achievements that he brings to light the considerable editorial and forensic effort...of the Hazlitt scholars before him... New Writings of William Hazlitt, must be acknowledged as a splendid tribute, to those scholars as to the great essayist himself.
Hazlitt's most devoted recent servant has been Duncan Wu... Wu has done very useful service in gathering this material and his extensive annotations cast erudite light on an entire literary milieu.
Duncan Wu is Professor of English at Georgetown University. He is the author of Wordsworth: An Inner Life (2000), and the editor of Romanticism: An Anthology, a standard text now in its third edition. He is the editor of Selected Writings of William Hazlitt (9 vols., 1998), William Hazlitt, The Plain Speaker: Key Essays (1998), and (with Tom Paulin and Uttara Natarajan) Metaphysical Hazlitt: Bicentenary Essays (2005).